Hi everyone, here is another new story. It is a bit different from others, but I hope you will like it. Until next one
Part 2- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53983888/

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New life pt.1
In his twenty-five years, tall grey wolf Hank had never been in another town, everything he needed was in his hometown. But, everything changed when he accidentally set fire in his workplace, he immediately got fired, and all anthros started to hate him. In the end, he decided to sold his apartment and move to a new town and start all from the beginning.
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When Hank finally sold apartment and other stuffs, he pack only important, bought a train ticket and went into his new hopefully happier and better life. First time in his life he traveled with a train in completely new town. He was scared but at same time so excited. The first morning in a completely new town. It wasn't too different from his old one; maybe this one is a bit smaller. First task was to find new place to stay, and then find a new job.
"Excuse me. Excuse me." Nobody wanted to respond and help lost wolf.
What now. Nobody wanted to help him, and he didn’t know the city at all. Maybe he could take a short break and find something online. He even could use a snack and sit in a local park, he was still little tired from travel. He bought two vanilla-strawberry croissants in local bakery, their week’s special. In the park was only one empty bench. He pulled his phone out to see if there is some hotel with empty room or maybe some apartment for rent.
"Excuse me, can I sit here?" An unfamiliar voice spoke to Hank. Hank lifts his head from the phone and spotted an exhausted brown rabbit.
"Sure."
"Thanks." Rabbit sat down, and wiped sweat with his blue tank-top. "Hugh. Man, running is so tiring sometimes, but it feels so good."
"I'm not a running type. But I like gym."
"Oh, that is so cool. For some reason I can't make any progress there." It could be seen rabbit is really friendly. Hank didn't mind that at all. He loved when he meets new people and make new friends. "OMG. You manage to buy vanilla-strawberry croissant, you are so lucky. I didn't make in time this month." Hank didn't even recognize he got special printed bag, that's the reason why rabbit knew what he had in the bag.
"You can have it." He provided bag to rabbit.
"What? No, I can't. You bought it."
"Don't worry. I don't know how they taste like, so I will not miss anything." Wolf continued to insist.
"WHAT?! You never try them! Then there's no way I can take that from you. You must try."
"It's ok. Really. I see you really like them." He put the bag on rabbit's lap.
"I don't know what to say. Thank you." Ben opened the bag and saw 2 croissants. "Oh, I didn't know that detail. That solves the problem. One for you, one for me."
"No, really. It's ok. You can have them both."
"No. You must try them. Come on." He pulled out one croissant and provided it.
"A-alright. If you insist." Hank finally accepted. He took a bite, and his tail started to wave from sudden taste almost immediately.
"Delicious, isn't it?"
"Yeah, it is. I never tried anything like this. How it's so delicious?"
"Perfect balance of vanilla and strawberries. Their own made chocolate cream on top. Special recipe for dough. And a lot of love. That's why they only make thousand every month, and sell them just for five days."
"Too bad. They are so delicious."
"Right! Enough about croissants. I'm Ben. Nice to meet you."
"Hank."
"Can I ask you something a bit personal?"
"Sure."
"What brings you in this town?"
"... How do you know I'm not from here?"
"Intuition."
"..."
"Hahaha. I'm joking. Because of croissants. Everyone here knows about them. So I concluded you are not from here."
"Hahaha. They truly are magical in many ways. But yeah, I came here to find new life. Right now, I try to find a place to stay. Hotel or apartment. Do you know anything like that?"
"I'm... I'm sorry to disappoint you. But there is nothing like that in this town."
"What?!"
"Yeah. It is true, we have good jobs and companies. But we are still a small town. We are not touristic city, and rarely anybody come here, so there's no need for hotels. And nobody had apartment or any place for rent. Maybe somebody has, but rarely. And most anthros here don't like outsiders."
"Come on. All that for nothing. Maybe I will have more luck in the next town."
"Ummm. Hank?"
"Yes?"
"This is maybe too direct and weird, but… If you want… You can live with me." Ben just wanted a housemate, and a friend, nothing more.
"Huh?"
"I have empty room in my house, and it's quite boring and lonely."
"But... We literally just meet."
"I don't force you. It's just proposal. Take time as much as you need." Ben pulled out piece of paper and write his address down. "This is my address if you change your mind. Now I must go get ready for work. Bye." He stood up and run away. (He works in coffee shop near his house)
"BYE BEN!" "What interesting fellow. Why does he even trust me? Should I trust him? I don't know. I will see if there are other options." It was exactly how Ben said. No hotel, no apartment, nothing. Whole day passed without any success. Only one option left here.
"Oh, Hank. You came."
"Y-yeah. Sorry if it took too long. It's not an everyday situation."
"It's ok. Come in. I will show you the house."
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It passed 2 years since Hank started lived with Ben. Hank quickly found new good job, he worked as a bookkeeper in local company for internet service. Also, they two quickly become best friends. They always hang out after work: talking, joking, watching movies and playing games.
Ben also found new passion. Innovations. He likes to create all kinds of things: laser guns, holographic projectors and science fiction things like that. He is really smart. Probably nobody would tell that. Now he's probably take a bit to large bite. He tried to make fully working size ray gun. It would be cool; just one pull of the trigger and everything will be big or small. All things he could do with it: helping anthros, stop world hunger, make all hard jobs simple, possibilities are endless. But this is going to change a word for sure. He also enabled a number of security measures to prevent bad things from happening. He wasn't expert in quantum physics, and making something like this is almost impossible. It took a year to come this far, but it’s almost complete, just a few more adjustments.
Doors opened. Hank was done with work and his workout. "Ben! I'm home!"
"I'm in my room, busy. Wait a bit."
Hank took a way upstairs towards Ben's room and come in. "How's going?"
"Almost done. I have never been so close to create something like that."
He got closer and give a friendly hug from the back. "I can't believe what you try to make. You are amazing."
The smell of sweaty wolf quickly reached rabbit's nose. "Hey smelly. Go get a shower."
"Who do you call smelly? And don't lie, I know you like it."
"What are you talking about?"
"Don't act dumb bunny. I see right now what are you creating. Just admit it."
"HANK!"
"Hahaha. Just joking. No need to be like that. I'm going to take a shower, and then we can have dinner."
Ben and Hank always tease each other, but sometimes it is too much for him, especially because he started to love Hank, but he was too afraid to admit this. What if he doesn't see him that way? What if he leaves if he finds out that? Their friendship will be ruined. Better if it stays like that.
After a few minutes it was time to test gun. He aimed apple on the table, pulled the trigger, and… Nothing. No lights, no charging, nothing. "Another fail. Let's see." Before Ben began to disable the gun he heard opening of bathroom door. Hank was done with the shower. Now he will dress himself and come back in his room, it's always like that. Maybe he could do a little prank on him. Hank didn't know gun isn't working.
"I'm done Ben. Let's get something to eat."
Immediately when doors opened, Ben pointed gun at wolf and pull the trigger. He didn't expect gun will fire a green beam at wolf. Beam hit Hank, and he immediately started to shrink. "WHAT!? NO! NO! NO! THAT DIDN'T SUPPOSE TO HAPPEN! STUPID PICECE OF JUNK!" From anger he threw, size ray on the table, that htot on the table did some damage. "NO! WHAT HAVE I DONE!" He realized what have and hit the table with his head as hard as he could. "STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!"
At first Hank didn't realized what happened. When he stopped shrinking, he looked around, everything was so enormous. He wasn't taller than 7 centimeters. Luckily his black tank-top and green shorts shrink with him. "Wow." View was completely new for him: carpet in the middle of the room was like landscape with tall blue grass, furniture was like huge trees, sealing tall almost like the highest skyscraper in the city and distance from door to rabbit was greater than football field. "This looks amazing!" Soon he heard sobbing from Ben, he cried. "Oh Ben." He knew Ben didn't mean anything bad, and it was probably an accident. So he stopped looking around and decided to comfort his best friend. Before, that distance took him 2 steps, now he needed full 3 minutes. Finally, he arrived to Ben's paw. Hank noticed he is barely taller than Ben's ankle. "Oh my!" It wasn't the first time he saw Ben's paws, he always offered him a paw massage 3 times a week, mostly after his run. His paws were big even in normal size but now, they were like a bus. Hank collect himself and poke Ben's paw.
"Huh?" Ben forgot about shrunken wolf until he looked down. "H-Hank?"
"Yes. It's me."
"I... I'm so sorry Hank. That didn't supposed to happen. It supposed to be prank. Give you a little scare. Not this. I didn't mean it."
"Ben. Could you please pick me up?" Ben got a bit nervous. Probably he wants to punch him in the face, but of course he can't do it from down there, he deserves everything what Hank plans. He slowly and gently picked him up and put him on the table.
When wolf was on the table, he lowered his head and put his chin on the table, and closed his eyes. "Do it. I deserve it." Suddenly, he felt something strange on his nose and upper lip. Ben opened his eyes and saw how 7 centimeter tall wolf gave him a hug on his nose. "Huh?"
"Ben. I'm not mad or angry. I know it was an accident, and you didn't mean it. Everything is ok."
Ben pulled his head away. "It's not ok! Look what have I done to you! I ruined you!"
"No you didn't! It was an accident. So what. I'm still alive. And..." Hank blushes a little.
"And what?"
"This is kinda amazing."
"What?"
"Yes. This whole new perspective is amazing. Everything is so big."
"But because of my stupidity I can't turn you back to normal. See, few comments are damaged and some are not in their place." There was a slight pause.
"Do you want to fix it?"
"Of course. I want everything is back to normal. I want you back." Rabbit blushed when he realized what did he say.
"Can you fix it?"
"I... I... I don't know. I failed so many times. And it would probably take so much time. I don't know if I'm capable for that."
"You are more than capable. I believe in you. And I will wait as much as I need. Take your time. Also, you have other things. Don't worry about me."
"But what about everything else. Your job, friends, your workout routine, and..."
"Oh. That is kinda tricky."
"See. I ruined everything. I ruined your whole life."
"Don't say things like that. I'm completely fine, there is nothing ruined. And for others. Can you send them a message from my phone? Like: I went on a trip to find myself, I left everything behind and I will return some day, don't worry about me. Something like that."
"Are you sure about that?"
"Yes, perfectly sure. And I really mean all of that." Tear started to form in Ben's eye from realization how good friend he had. "Come on. Let's go get something to eat."
"Yes." He put palm on the table so Hank could climb on, and slowly went in the kitchen. They didn't plan anything special for dinner tonight, probably regular sandwiches. Ben put wolf on the counter and pull all ingredients for sandwiches (some salami, cheese, mayonnaise, salad, bread), but he soon realized a problem. How to make a sandwich for shrunken wolf. Rabbit loudly exalted.
"Don't worry. Just slice smaller pieces and I will make the rest. Or maybe we have something else, so you don't have difficulties." Hank always knew what bother Ben's mind when he was depressed.
"No. I will make smaller pieces. It's less I can do." So he did it. The whole time Ben didn't spoke a word. No matter what Hank said to cheer him up, Ben just shortly replied (like: mhm, yes, no, I don't know...).
When they finished eating, only one thing came on Hank's mind. "I think, I can give you a paw massage. That always cheer you up." Paw massage was just an excuse, Hank just wanted to pamper those huge, brow, four toed paws for own amusing, rabbit happiness was just a wonderful bonus.
"Paw massage? When you are in that size? I don't know."
"Come on. Let's try. We both must get used to it. We can't give up on routines. Hehe."
Finally, smile appeared on Ben's face. "Haha. If you say so. I can use some massage." So they went towards the couch in the living room. Ben put wolf on one side of the couch so he could lie down.
Hank looked at those titanic sole in passion way. "Wow. That's a new view. Hahaha. Are you ready?"
"I guess." Ben still wasn't convinced with that, and he was still so nervous.
"Alright then. Here I go." He put his both hands on main pad of right paw and push them with all of his strength.
"Oh." That catches rabbit a little bit of guard. "This feels kinda good. Somehow even better than he is normal size." He tough. Hank's tiny hands put enough pressure on small area to give giant rabbit very pleasant feeling.
"Is it good?"
"Of course." Said with a slight smile.
"Glad to hear that." Wolf continued his job with a smile on face. He finally managed to cheer up his best friend.
But that slight smile from rabbit's face quickly disappeared. "Why? Why is all this happening? It's all my fault." Soon after those thoughts, one small tear started to form in his left eye. Even if Hank told him it wasn't his fault, he felt guilty like never before.
"Ben." Wolf immediately noticed change of mood. What now? Only thing he could tough of. He went towards left paw and put whole body into it (his arms, head, torso and legs) and started rubbing half of the paw with his whole body.
"Huh. What are you doing down there?" It felled so good, but also so weird.
"Nothing. Just trying new methods. Hahaha."
Ben didn’t say anything, he decided to enjoy at the moment. He closed his eyes, and soon falls asleep on the couch. Slight snoring could be heard.
Those snores were signals for Hank. Now he had all freedom he wanted. But he just wanted one thing. Kiss those marvelous bunny paws. He always wanted that, but he never had a chance. Now he was small, so Ben probably wouldn't feel anything strange, and when Ben is sleeping it's hard to wake him up. So he kissed one of the paws. That was the most pleasant and marvelous sensation in his life, slightly salt from sweat but also smooth and soft, and it smelled like mint shampoo they have in bathroom. He kissed each paw a few more time, when suddenly paw moved. He jumped back. Luckily, Ben didn't wake up. He looked at Ben's face; one small tear could be seen on his cheek.
He decided to climb all the way up there. First he climbed up on rabbit's ankle so he could walk on his leg, not too hard, and begin his journey on rabbit's leg. Leg is long almost like basketball court from his perspective, and fur was like brown grass little taller than wolf's ankle. That grass was just to rabbit’s knee, because he wore black shorts. After shorts he was in front of red tank-top covered torso. Luckily Ben was lying so he didn't need to climb anymore, he just continued his journey. Walking on someone’s cloth was pretty weird experience, better he got used of that. After few more minutes he was in front of rabbit's face once again. He wiped away every tear on those furry cheeks, and he gives one small kiss on Ben's right cheek.
"Don't worry my bunny-wunny. Don't feel guilty and don't feel sorry for me. I will wait as long as I need. Even if you can't fix it I don't care. As long I'm with you I will feel safe and I will be happy. I hope you feel similar. Sweat dreams bunny-wunny." He gave one more kiss on Ben's cheek, then small smile appear on Ben's face. He also feels the same way like Ben, but he also was afraid to admit. He also could use some sleep, so he lied on pillow beside Ben's head and fall asleep.